Beauty Break: Born on New Year's Day

No "showbiz history" today but, as with Christmas, how strange would it be to have your birthday fall directly on a holiday. Some of you know out there. Do tell in the comments. It must be especially weird to be a New Year's Day baby since people pack so much importance on to this day as a fresh start. And here comes a long a baby with a literal fresh start on everyone's collective fresh start day. 

Here are a dozen showbiz beauties born on this day...

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It's finally here so.... "Happy New Year!"

May 2021 be wonderful or, at least, excessively pleasant and short on worries ... which would in fact be a seismic change and wonderful indeed! Thank you for visiting TFE on the regular. Have a beautiful restful "fresh start!" kind of day. 

Almost There: Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally..."

by Cláudio Alves

Last week, we examined a Christmas movie performance that came close to Oscar glory to celebrate the holidays. Now that we're coming to the end of this cursed 2020, it seems appropriate to choose a New Year's Eve film. When it came time to pick such a picture, my mind immediately went to f Rob Reiner's 1989 When Harry Met Sally…, a perfect rom-com whose Nora Ephron-penned screenplay earned a much-deserved Academy Award nomination. Our focus shall be on the Sally of the title, Meg Ryan giving a comedienne's masterclass…

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Relatable words from Diane Kruger

from Diane's instagram

I’m SO OVER this f......g YEAR ! Let’s SHAKE IT OFF already 🤯

What she said. So um... Happy New Year's Eve everyone. Party responsiby if you're partying which is to say, only with your immediate "bubble" whose respiratory droplets you've been inhaling for... um... 9 whole months now.  2020 is almost over. We're also putting on a face mask to shake off dead skin cells with it. 

More film critic prizes: Chicago, Indiana, GWNYC

by Nathaniel R

With over 30 critics groups now in the US (and *still* literally more each year) and many of them now doing two rounds of announcements we don't give everyone two posts or even one here at TFE (we need time to actually write about movies!) but we do like to check in once in a while. Chloe Zhao continues to be a literal sweeper in Best Director (with no one else ever winning) while Maria Bakalova continues to dominate in Supporting Actress though some, including the upcoming Golden Globe Awards argue it's a leading role.

Here's a few more prizes, the most famous being the Chicago Film Critics Association...

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